A panel with three registers of decoration, the lower one representing scenes from the last existence. There are vertical parallel chisel marks on the back. The base is a plain projecting band, the cornice is a row of vertical separate acanthus leaves with plain leaves behind. The lower register is …
Fragment of a relief depicting the First Sermon. After attaining Enlightenment in Bodh Gayā, the Buddha travels to Sarnath. In the Deer Park, he teaches the dharma to the five ascetics with whom he had shared years of practice. Remnants of the Buddha’s profile are barely visible on the …
Right hand of a male figure, probably a buddha, showing webbed fingers. A square hole, defined by a rather flat circular groove, is carved in the palm. Remains of drapery are seen on the wrist.
Fragment of a relief showing the upper part of the Buddha’s body. The figure was sitting. He has open eyes with pupils in relief, a moustache, and hair with vertical strands converging at the centre. The uṣṇīṣa is separate and tied at its base by a string with a …
A string triangular element of a stair railing representing a fantastic animal with wings and possibly rampant horse forelimbs. A plain listel frame defines the figured field.
Fragment of a relief preserving the upper part of a male figure’s body. The back shows vertical tool marks.
The figure is standing and turning towards the left. His right hand was raised, his left is holding a carinated basin. The figure has long, flowing hair tied by a …
Part of a relief showing Māyā’s dream. Māyā, the queen consort of Śuddhodana, dreams of a white elephant entering her womb through her right side. As soon as she wakes up, she finds out to be pregnant.
A framed pilaster, of which only the base and scanty traces of …
Fragment of a relief possibly representing the Visiting of the Ascetics. The Brahman teacher Bāvari sends his sixteen brahmin students to the Buddha to answer questions about the goal of his teachings and how to attain the same. Each of the sixteen ascetics pays the Buddha a visit in Śrāvastī …
Fragment of a relief showing a male donor. The base was plain.
The donor is standing under a city door originally featuring volutes and pendant elements – only those on the left remain. The jambs are carved with a bead-and-reel motif. The figure is holding a lotus in the left hand …
Fragment of a relief with two separate scenes, that on the right displaying three young ascetics. Of the left scene, only a scanty portion survives. The scenes are separated by a framed pilaster of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a short flute on the shaft. The base is plain. A rectangular …
Fragment of a relief showing a male devotee under a city door on the right and the scanty remains of another door on the left. They are separated by a semi/half column of the Gandharan-Persepolitan type with a modillion. The base was plain.
The devotee is standing under a …
Fragment of a relief showing a female figure defined on the left by a framed row of rosettes within filletted lozenges and half-rosettes in the resulting triangles. The base is plain.
The female figure is standing frontally, with her right hand on her chest. She is dressed in a long …